Madurai: A PIL has been filed in the Madras High Court bench here seeking punitive action against a Tamil Nadu government irrigation official for allegedly ordering special poojas to propitiate rain God for copious inflows into Mettur Dam, the lifeline of Cauvery delta farmers.

Petitioner N Ilango, an advocate, submitted before a bench comprising Justices S.Manikumar and G.Chockalingam that Chief Engineer (Irrigation) S.Asokan had issued a circular directing the Water Resource Organisation Executive Engineers to perform Special poojas on June 1 to invoke the rain God.